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Train reaction process in the reactor the a tremendous heat which scientists have learned out of control. Was really a patriotic theme to harness the. I was so excited about Nuclear Engineering because i thought it would solve the Worlds Energy crisis is exciting science to realize youve got the power of the sun inside out reactor near solar all inspiring when everything works. To refer when making energy the problem is that everything has worked out japans a Nuclear Nightmare continues a 2nd Hydrogen Explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex destroyed the reactors exterior all. 3 daiichi reactors have Nuclear Fuel Rods that have been exposed to some degree so they are teetering on the edge of a meltdown. You need to sit. There and. Know she. Can get you in. Custody more. Concerning that situation in japan and im no joy in life from vermont to some that were reporting at the moment that theyre all suggestions that a partial Nuclear Meltdown is no way this is not a Nuclear Chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the Chain Reaction has started sort of sorts of interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. The chemicals that are going to be released are similar actually the chemicals released from other the radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation is released in a Nuclear Power plant all were looking at an apocalypse this is true and noble on steroids do you think its definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be of. No i dont think crisis can be averted. Containment building a good t. V. Especially Nuclear Reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says it will be storing the plants clean told a crack displaced those who live in the shadow of deep despair see see any problems can be alarming i dont give a whole lot of oh i checked once in awhile when you hear Something Like that. Concerns to. The Nuclear Regulatory commission is monitoring the situation in. Indian Point Nuclear Energy Center in a condition no one wants to see with black smoke pouring out of these photos were posted on social media as responders on site ones plus these firefighters nearby her client went in to find a transformer turning. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo came to see the response up close for himself this was a relatively minor situation but when youre talking about a Nuclear Power really minor situation. Radioactive tritium is leaking from 3 quarters of all u. S. Commercial Nuclear Power sites and a cancer causing material often seeps into groundwater from corroded bury piping and thats what the Associated Press concluded after a year long investigation. Southern california edison says it will be closing the troubled 703 Nuclear Power plant good. To San Diego County has been offline for months because of a mechanical. That led to trace amounts of radiation being really bad just the latest in a number of environmental problems of 703000. Vernon is the host. For my achy. The town born in this very close knit town. The people really care about one another. And were more than just neighbors its a great community. When people think of the state of vermont they think of dairy farms. In fields they think a maple trees maple syrup. They think of rivers and pristine lakes. And we got. The Nuclear Power plant right on the southern border. For my yankee welcome to romano. If people think that there is a radioactive problem at this plant in vermont our vermont brand is done. To drink our milk whos going to want to whos going to want to use our sear whos going to want to come here and drive past that. Very much. Right now oh no no yankee just has to. Show. Yankees im saying we know right now. There is no source of energy in this world that doesnt have risk associated with it in nuclear it is very very low so i feel its a very Safe Technology our job is to protect Public Health and safety and never have an accident that jeopardizes Public Health or safety so thats with us every day people like me come in here in the 650. 00 men and women that work here that is our focus the safe operation of this plant. I live right across the street from vermont. They have always been a Good Neighbor i have children that go to the school which is also right across the street from. You dont move to vernon and live in vernon if youre worried about the point both our girls live in town or 6 grandchildren live in town in fact my youngest daughter lives down the road here well as the crow flies its less than a half mile from the point. Where we dont worry about the poor being here. I live 70 miles from the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant and what that means in terms of any sort of incident or accident that might happen in that plan is that if it was a serious incident most likely i would no longer be able to live in my home the whole area would be contaminated if you look from fukushima. I would lose my home my community where ive been for the last 30 years of my life and i would have to relocate to some other place it would be a complete disaster. People shouldnt have to live with that sort of risk thats not acceptable. I have a passion for justice. And theres always a lot of our going to be. Our area and thats the way i have lived my life im frances crowe. And i live in northampton messages says i 93 years out. And ive been involved in trying to say no to this finding of the adam and all of the consequences of it sent night in 45 when i heard about. The rape. I am a member of the shut it down at senate ticker of a group of women that came together to shut down for me with our batteries and action. Is that hot yes. We meet once a month we have a pot like here my house and wave figure out what were going to do and then we do it. For my yankee is right now my focus because its a very dangerous oh no claire power plant and if there is that accident at all bake this area of knowing good and and maybe all of new england uninhabitable for generations. And he started to run in 1972 it only had a license to run until 2012 in 2009 they applied to the Nuclear Regulatory commission to get another 20 years on their license so they could run it said 2032 the state of vermont asked me to oversee from a yankee and see if it was reliable enough to run for true 20 more years so i was chairman of the Oversight Panel thats looked into Vermont Yankee in 2009 we found 80 problems but if they cleaned up the problems we all signed a report saying reminding he could run for another 20 years. There a year later we found out that they were lying to us entergy on a number of occasions including under oath before our Public Service board. Denied the existence of. Underground piping carrying radioactive material. You cannot be both with the yeah you like. Such road to so you need for good in each other than the human. But on the better side going into the book are useless all that business and just. Listen to. Me Emotional Learning teavana must go i feel story a stock or even a source in the course for me which resists him but of course a sloth could fall for the coach of the church. Before going into business to compassion that. We think he minds be soldier to piss off the boot shes wearing. To church so much the sold out so its to move the opposable opinion more than with it and youll like it on the show stuck in the summarizing the story is forced sort of us all to. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. You see a romance most trusted news source says but channel 3. More trouble for a Vermont Yankee a concrete trench at the plant is unexpectedly filling up with radioactive water radioactive water discovered in a concrete ditch at the Nuclear Plant contains high levels of tritium the tritium found at the plant is 100 times the level deemed acceptable by the Nuclear Regulatory commission the tritium concentrations are in sky high Nuclear Expert Arnie Gundersen says this is get another indication the aging play it should close this is either a leak in a pipe or a leak in the tank that pipe connects underground pipes that Vermont Yankee originally claimed did not exist until after the 1st leak was discovered gunderson was on the public Oversight Panel made false statements. The Parent Company says it was miscommunication nothing more the radioactive border contained tritium lots of trivium but it also contained other isotopes we contain strontium 90 which is a bone seeker and causes leukemia because cesium 137 which is the muscle seeker causes Heart Disease and it contains cobalt 60 which is a very high energy gamma source then a whole bunch of other isotopes minimal all of those started to work their way into the soil and has definitely entered the Connecticut River through the human all these radioactive isotopes can cause cancer. Why is the treaty in leak of concern to us ground water down there is being threatened and potentially the river water is being threatened something needs to be done right now i believe that miners once a. We have buried corroded pipes that are way beyond their design life. This problem worldwide. We were told Crystal Clear that there were no buried underground pipes that contain radioactivity how many other plants. Do not have undergone ip do you know there are none. I asked for an obscure report i got it and i read and i said oh my god theres a bird in underground pipe you knew when you read that that there was underground piping yes you ben misstatements have been given yes thats right i was stonewall what has happened at her mind yankee is a breach of trust that cannot be tolerated in order to move forward on whether or not the plan will continue to operate questions need to be answered changes need to be made and the trust of vermonters must be restored we were now being lied to and lied to under oath on record and in vermont and in vermont and especially in the statehouse. Your word is all you got to live by we have a lot of going and to do and we have to rebuild Public Confidence and trust were operating a Nuclear Power plant and people expect that you know it is an Industrial Facility you are going to have incidents thats just a fact of life. We drilled approximately 23 wells in this area so that we can triangulate and pinpoint the source of the leak by obviously the highest concentration of 28 in water in this particular well we just did not do a good job of presenting information complete and Accurate Information to the vermont Public Service board and thats unacceptable dandruff certainly on an unacceptable to the public and that shook public trust and confidence and we absolutely understand it and then have a tritium leak to groundwater. Adds to a lack of confidence weve said numerous times we apologize for that were embarrassed about that. That shouldnt have happened. In a time of. A. Word gone omar 0. 00000. 000 martyrs were used to all the different seasons you put out some extra clothes its winter obviously that raise certain challenges but its not a problem it happen to be january so thats when the walking. I walking because it feels like a powerful way to stand up mass said that its time to shut the plant down. Were really excited to be here were looking forward to meeting with our legislators in a little while and i really appreciate the opportunity to have democracy al in action are walking through the state. I am speaking on behalf of walkers who today completed a 126 mile 11. Day walk. And now id like to present you with a petition to the members of the ramada Legislature Please retire Vermont Yankee on schedule no later than march of 2012 and a copy to you thank you peter. Thank you to the marchers thanks to all of you in this room for coming to the peoples house the greatest democracy in america and letting us hear your voices on this important issue i have concluded that it is in the best interests of vermonter its not sure a new license step for my yankee and thats how i will vote. There was an intense level of organizing and behalf of the citizen activists. We held public forums. Your senators match and our key that we made phone calls would you be able to call them and talk to them about this we wrote norma some of the letters to the editor and we gauge people from all across the state and all across the political spectrum to call for our legislature to vote no on continued operation of Vermont Yankee beyond march of 2012. Spasmed i just want to wrap up the debate. This is in vermont spece interests to operate Vermont Yankee beyond its scheduled closing date of 2012. If you dont think that leaking tritium and cobol into the ground water and the Connecticut River and the environment of the state of vermont that every single for mano cherishes and holds dear that i dont know what else you can have as an indicator that reliability is a problem with a Nuclear Power has a place in a future of energy in america. We can debate that to a cows come home what we should not be debating is whether we can extend the life of our e. G. Nuclear power plants beyond their design life this is crazy stuff and i felt very strongly that it was the wrong thing to do for math clicked us secretary please call the roll to start. Another star he had us and the star was just under fire. On the lifeboats no. Theres a series of us here both the ears for the nice 26. I think the senate voted 26. 00 to 4. 00 in favor of closing Vermont Yankee its really a testament to all of the work that citizens did over the course of several years over the course of decades our voice as the people as as as the people of vermont is what matters. Well you know we were just. Pointed out surprised again with the incidents that were happening at the plant it was understandable. That Nuclear Power is a hell of a way to boil water. Really happens inside a Nuclear Reactor is of uranium out pops and in the process it gives off an enormous amount of heat does it boil water make some steam and turn a turbine in a generator and electricity comes out but whats left behind after you do you have use that electricity by these pieces and these pieces stay radioactive for a quarter of a 1000000 years. That is toxic poisonous to humans for 250000 years i keep saying that number 250000 years its ridiculous its mind boggling id be the 1st to acknowledge that is the achilles heel of the Nuclear Industry nuclear waste. There is no answer to this they keep telling us oh no technology will take Care Technology technology is not taking care of it and if you cannot take care of the waste and you cannot manage the ways then the only responsible thing is to stop producing the ways. And then you bring him in here. Where registering young voters to the dimensions like smaller scale so instead of having a huge Nuclear Power plant theyll be 3 really trying to get young people excited about clean energy and power in different places so its a much more local. There is Surplus Campaign is a student led arena zation based out of Middlebury College we got together right after the senate voted to close for mining because we were wondering whats coming next what are we going to replace for a minute keep it. In the field and the best way to achieve our goal is to elect a governor who has a really strong plan. Strategist financial survival. When customers go buy your supplies. Then help well reduce a lower. Thats undercutting but whats good for markets this market for the global economy. The world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. In the main stories of the way here now to the mosque. 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